How Can an Amino Acid Sequence Be Used to Design

question 33

Multiple Choice

How can an amino acid sequence be used to design a gene-specific hybridization probe?

• A)A portion of a polypeptide chain can be synthesized based on the amino acid sequence of the full protein.
• B)A protein can be purified,digested with proteases that cleave it at specific sites,and one of the peptide fragments can be used as a probe.
• C)All possible nucleotide sequences that could encode a portion of the polypeptide can be synthesized and used as probes.

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